• Pistacia integerrima

    Pistacia integerrima J. L. Stewart, J. L. Stewart & D. Brandis, Forest fl. N. W. India 122, t. 22. 1874 (syn: (≡) Pistacia chinensis subsp. integerrima (J. L. Stewart ex Brandis) Rech. f.); . Common name: Kakkar • Hindi: kakra, kakra-singi, kareran, kakare, kakkar • Marathi: kakra, kaakada, kaakad shingee…

  • Viburnum erubescens

    Viburnum erubescens Wall., Pl. Asiat. Rar. 2: 29, pl. 134 1831. (Syn: Solenotinus erubescens (Wall.) Oerst.; Viburnum botryoideum H. Lév.; Viburnum burmanicum (Rehder) C.Y. Wu ex P.S. Hsu; Viburnum burmanicum var. motoense P.S. Hsu; Viburnum erubescens var. burmanicum Rehder; Viburnum erubescens var. erubescens ; Viburnum erubescens var. gracilipes Rehder; Viburnum…

  • Alpinia vittata (Introduced)

    Alpinia vittata W.Bull, Cat. 83: 4 1873. (Syn: Alpinia sanderae Sander; Alpinia tricolor Sander; Guillainia vittata (W.Bull) Ridl.); . Bismarck Archipelago; Dominican Republic; Fiji; Leeward Is.; Solomon Is.; Thailand; Trinidad-Tobago; Windward Is. as per Catalogue of Life; . Common name: Striped Ginger .   Alpinia for ID : 090511 : AK-1: Taken…

  • Coix species ?- Mizoram

    Grassfortheid : Attachments (1).  5 posts by 2 authors. Date : 28-09-2013. Habitat : Wild It is look like Coix Location please. And if possible sharper image of inflorescence Dear sir, Sorry ! I don’t have good image of inflorescence.  

  • Caralluma species- Sri Lanka

    SL 209 091213 : Attachments (1). 5 posts by 4 authors. Please ID this Euphorbiaceae plant. Photo was taken in Sri Lanka in Sep 2012. This is not Euphorbiaceae member, it is a species of Caralluma. Caralluma– some species in India & eFI with some keys Looks like a species…

  • Amomum aromaticum

    Amomum aromaticum Roxb., Fl. Ind. 1: 44 1820. (Syn: Alpinia fasciculata (Roscoe) Steud.; Amomum fasciculatum (Roscoe) Benth. & Hook.f. ex B.D.Jacks.; Cardamomum aromaticum (Roxb.) Kuntze; Geocallis fasciculata (Roscoe) Horan.; Renealmia fasciculata Roscoe); . Nepal to Bangladesh: Assam, Bangladesh, East Himalaya, Nepal as per POWO (Wurfbainia aromatica (Roxb.) Škorničk. & A.D.Poulsen);…

  • Begonia maculata (Cultivated)

    Begonia maculata Raddi, Alc. Sp. Rett. Piant. Bras. 406 1820. (Syn: Begonia aculeata Walp.; Begonia argyrostigma Fisch. ex Link & Otto; Begonia corallina Carrière; Begonia dichroa Sprague; Begonia maculata var. argentea (Klotzsch) A.DC.; Begonia maculata f. argentea (Klotzsch) Voss; Begonia maculata var. elegantissima Fotsch; Begonia maculata var. wightii Fotsch; Begonia…

  • Schoenoplectus subulatus

    Schoenoplectus subulatus (Vahl) Lye, Bot. Not. 124: 290 (1971). (Syn: (=) Schoenoplectus litoralis (Schrad.) Palla; (=) Scirpus litoralis Schrad.; (≡) Scirpus subulatus Vahl (basionym)); . Afghanistan; Algeria; Andaman Is.; Angola; Burkina; Burundi; Chad; Comoros; Egypt; Ethiopia; Gabon; Hainan; India; Iran; Jawa; Lesser Sunda Is.; Line Is.; Madagascar; Marianas; Morocco; Namibia;…

  • Ficus squamosa

    Ficus squamosa Roxb., Fl. Ind. ed. 1832 3: 531 1832. (Syn: Ficus laminosa Hardw. ex Roxb.; Ficus pyrrhocarpa Kurz; Ficus saemocarpa Miq.); . India (Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Meghalaya, Orissa, Tripura, Uttarakhand, W. Bengal), Bhutan, China, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand as per Synopsis of the Genus Ficus L. (Moraceae) in India Lal…

  • Cymbidium hookerianum

    Cymbidium hookerianum Rchb.f., Gard. Chron. 1866: 7 1866. (Syn: Cymbidium giganteum var. hookerianum (Rchb.f.) Desbois; Cymbidium grandiflorum Griff. [Illegitimate]; Cymbidium grandiflorum var. punctatum Cogn.; Cyperorchis grandiflora Schltr.); . E. Nepal to S. China and N. Indo-China: Assam, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam as per…

  • Phyllanthus lawii

    Phyllanthus lawii J.Graham, Cat. Pl. Bombay 181 1839. (Syn: Diasperus lawii (J.Graham) Kuntze; Diasperus nemorum (Russell ex Müll.Arg.) Kuntze; Phyllanthus juniperinoides Müll.Arg.; Phyllanthus nemorum Russell ex Müll.Arg.; Phyllanthus polyphyllus Dalzell & A.Gibson; Phyllanthus spinulosus B.Heyne ex Wall. [Invalid]); . India as per POWO; . Common name: Law’s Gooseberry • Malayalam:…

  • Breynia racemosa

    Breynia racemosa (Blume) Müll.Arg., Prodr. 15(2): 441 1866. (Syn: Breynia acuminata (Müll.Arg.) Müll.Arg.; Breynia racemosa var. aromatica Airy Shaw; Breynia racemosa var. concolor Müll.Arg.; Breynia reclinata (Roxb.) Hook.f.; Breynia rhamnoides var. hypoglauca (Müll.Arg.) Müll.Arg.; Melanthesa acuminata Müll.Arg.; Melanthesa racemosa Blume; Melanthesa reclinata (Roxb.) Müll.Arg.; Melanthesa rhamnoides var. hypoglauca Müll.Arg.; Melanthesopsis…

  • Alpinia roxburghii

    Alpinia roxburghii Sweet, Hort. Brit. 390 1826. (Syn: Alpinia blepharocalyx K.Schum.; Alpinia blepharocalyx var. glabrior (Hand.-Mazz.) T.L.Wu; Alpinia bracteata Roxb. [Illegitimate]; Languas blepharocalyx (K.Schum.) Hand.-Mazz.; Languas blepharocalyx var. glabrior Hand.-Mazz.); . E. Nepal to S. China and Peninsula Malaysia: Assam, Bangladesh, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, India, Laos, Malaya,…

  • Echinocactus platyacanthus

    Echinocactus platyacanthus Link & Otto, Verh. Vereins Beförd. Gartenbaues Königl. Preuss. Staaten 3: 423 1827. (Syn: Copiapoa macracantha (Salm-Dyck) Meregalli [Invalid]; Echinocactus arachnoideus Scheidw.; Echinocactus aulacogonus Lem. .; Echinocactus edulis Haage ex C.F.Först. [Invalid]; Echinocactus ghiesbreghtianus Lem.; Echinocactus grandis Rose ..; Echinocactus helophorus Lem. ..; Echinocactus ingens Zucc. ex Pfeiff. ………..; Echinocactus irroratus Scheidw.;…

  • Brassica carinata

    Brassica carinata A.Braun, Flora 24: 267 1841. (Syn: Brassica integrifolia var. carinata (Broun) O.E.Schulz; Brassica juncea var. agrestis Prain; Brassica juncea var. cuneifolia Prain; Brassica juncea var. edona Makino; Brassica juncea subsp. urbaniana (O.E.Schulz) Thell.; Brassica lanceolata Sauv.; Brassica nigra var. laevigata (DC.) Alef.; Brassica timoriana F.Muell.; Brassica urbaniana O.E.Schulz;…

  • Award for eFloraofIndia

    Fwd: Declaration of Wipro- NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 : PFA the Media release for Declaration of Wipro-NFS Sparrow Award. You can circulate this to your media contacts. . Media Release . Wipro-Nature Forever Society Sparrow Awards The Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards were instituted in 2011 with an aim to identify citizens…

  • Chionanthus ramiflorus

    Chionanthus ramiflorus Roxb., Fl. Ind. 1: 106 1820. (Syn: Chionanthus effusiflorus F.Muell.; Chionanthus intermedius (Wight) F.Muell.; Chionanthus macrophyllus (Wall. & G.Don) Blume; Chionanthus macrophyllus var. attenuatus (C.B.Clarke) K.K.N.Nair & K.P.Janardh. ; Chionanthus palembanicus Miq.; Chionanthus paniculatus (Roxb.) K.K.N.Nair & K.P.Janardh. [Illegitimate]; Chionanthus pauciflorus (Wall. ex G.Don) Bennet & Raizada ..; Chionanthus…

  • Helichrysum buddlejoides

    Helichrysum buddleioides DC., in R.Wight, Contr. Bot. India: 20 (1834) (Syn: Gnaphalium buddlejoides (DC.) Sch.Bip. ; Gnaphalium cynoglossoides Sch.Bip. ex Hook.f.) as per POWO and IPNI; .  India (Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal, Kerala), Sri Lanka as per Catalogue of life; . Common name: Butterfly-Bush Golden Cudweed; Malayalam Panjipoovu; ….

  • Zingiber spectabile (Introduced)

    Zingiber spectabile Griff., Not. Pl. Asiat. 3: 413 1851.; . Thailand to Peninsula Malaysia: Malaya, Thailand; Introduced into: Andaman Is., Chagos Archipelago, Jawa, Nicobar Is. as per POWO; . Common name: Beehive Ginger . Zingiber spectabile is a species of true ginger, native to Maritime Southeast Asia. It is primarily…

  • Campanula latifolia

    Campanula latifolia L., Sp. Pl. 165 1753. (Syn: Campanula macrantha (Fisch. ex Sims) Hook.; Drymocodon latifolium (L.) Fourr.; Trachelioides latifolia (L.) Opiz); . Large Bellflower, Great bellflower; . Campanulaceae & Gentianaceae Week: Gentianaceae, (Campanula latifolia): Campanula latifolia Valley of flowers Jul.2008 Campanulaceae & Gentianaceae Week: Campanulaceae-Campanula 01 from Paddar valley…